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Contrary to what you might read or hear in the news, North Carolinians should be proud that an occassional and deserved execution is allowed to proceed.
- Wayne Uber

Monday, December 16, 2013

THE DEATH PENALTY: FAIR & JUST

The Death Penalty: Fair & JustDudley
Sharp

The following addresses the most common
fairness/justice issues within the death penalty
debate.

The death penalty is given for the same reason all
sanctions are, that is that it is deemed a just, appropriate and proportional
sanction, in the context of the
crime.These topics reflect part of my moral journey from death penalty opponent to advocate, with the first two topics, by far, the most important.

Victim's Voices - These are the murder victimshttp://www.murdervictims.com/Voices/voices.html"The bodies were very badly decomposed, even for four days in Houston's brutal summer heat and humidity, particularly in the head, neck and genital areas. The medical examiner later testified that this is how she could be sure as to the horrible brutality of the rapes, beatings and murders."

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-death-penalty-mercy-expiation.htmlQuaker biblical scholar Dr. Gervas A. Carey: “. . . a secondary measure of the love of God may be said to appear. For capital punishment provides the murderer with incentive to repentance which the ordinary man does not have, that is a definite date on which he is to meet his God. It is as if God thus providentially granted him a special inducement to repentance out of consideration of the enormity of his crime . . . the law grants to the condemned an opportunity which he did not grant to his victim, the opportunity to prepare to meet his God. Even divine justice here may be said to be tempered with mercy.”RACE & THE DEATH PENALTY: A REBUTTAL TO THE
RACISM CLAIMS

56% of those executed are white, 35% black From 1977-2012, white death row murderers have been executed at a rate 41% higher than are black death row murderers, 19.3% vs 13.7%, respectively."There is no race of the offender / victim effect at either the decision to advance a case to penalty hearing or the decision to sentence a defendant to death given a penalty hearing."For the White–Black comparisons, the Black level is 12.7 times greater than the White level for homicide, 15.6 times greater for robbery, 6.7 times greater for rape, and 4.5 times greater for aggravated assault.As robbery/murder is, by far, the most common death penalty eligible murder, the multiples will be even greater.

It is, solely, dependent upon the definitions of "wealthy" and "poor", as to whether wealthy murderers are any more or less likely to be executed, based upon the very small number and percentage of capital murders that are committed by the wealthy, as compared to the poor.

THE DEATH PENALTY: LEAST ARBITRARY & CAPRICIOUS
SANCTIONBoth the guilty & the innocent have the greatest of
protectionshttp://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-death-penalty-neither-arbitrary-nor.htmlThe facts tell us that the death penalty is the least arbitrary and capricious sanction in the US.Protections for the guilty murderer and the actual innocent accused are unmatched by any other sanction protocol.Nothing else comes close.

Texas Death Penalty Procedureshttp://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/11/texas-death-penalty-procedures.html100% of the 48 votes (4 voting issues for each of the 12 jurors), must be against the defendant/murderer, for a death sentence to be given. 2%, only 1 of those 48 votes, must be for the defendant/murderer, to remove the death penalty option.Any juror can use anything they want, personally and subjectively, to spare the murderer a death sentence.Judges Responsible for Grossly Uneven
Executions

Certainly, both freedom and life are fundamental human rights. On this, there is virtually no disagreement. However, again, virtually all agree, that freedom may be taken away when there is a violation of the social contract. Freedom, a fundamental human right, may be taken away from those who violate society's laws. So to is the fundamental human right of life forfeit when the violation of the social contract is most grave.

Far from moral superiority, those who call capital punishment an expression of hatred and revenge are often exhibiting their contempt for those who believe differently than they do. Instead, they might reflect on why others believe it is a just and deserved sanction for the crimes committed.

The pro death penalty position is based upon those who find that punishment just and appropriate under specific circumstances. Retributive justice as opposed to revenge.Those opposed to execution cannot prove a foundation of hatred and revenge for the death penalty any more than they can for any other punishment sought within a system such as that observed within the US - unless such opponents find all punishments a product of hatred and revenge - an unreasonable, unfounded position.Killing Equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of
Death Penalty Opponents

Some anti death penalty folks are either incapable of knowing the moral differences between crime and punishment, guilty criminals and their innocent victims, or they are knowingly using a dishonest slogan by equating killing (murder) with killing (execution).Murder
Victims' Families Against The Death Penalty:

The Death Penalty: Pro Lifehttp://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/01/pro-life-death-penalty.htmlBased upon biblical and theological teachings, one can, reasonably and responsibly, find that an anti death penalty view is not pro life.All sanctions are given because we value what is being taken away.Whether it be fines, freedom or lives, in every case we take things away, as legal sanction, it is because we value that which is taken away.How can it be a sanction, if we do not value that which is taken away? It can't.

86% death penalty support (1), the highest I have ever located22% of the 86% finding the death penalty "always appropriate", the highest I have ever located (2)64% of the 86% finding the death penalty "sometimes appropriate"

9% finding the death penalty "never appropriate", the lowest I have ever located

Why didn't you hear of this poll? The media excluded it from coverage.

Moral Support for the Death Penalty3300
quotes http://prodpquotes.info/“If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.” Immanuel Kant